With affirmative action outlawed, and use of SATs in decline, selective colleges are paying ever more attention to essays. ChatGPT poses a challenge. Seventeen-year-old senior Ethan Rivera is finding ...

Whether it is finding where Waldo really is, considering who Sally sells her seashells to or exploring what can actually be divided by zero, every University of Chicago undergraduate since the 1980s ...

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Applicants are not supposed to use AI to write college essays. But colleges are using AI to help assess applications. At ...

The essays are one of the most important parts of your application. We ask that they reflect your own thinking and analysis while demonstrating your writing skills. These essays should be in ...

As the college essay program manager for Write the World, a nonprofit writing organization for teens, I oversee a group of advisers who guide students through the essay writing process. I have seen ...

With affirmative action banned, application essays ask about “life experience,” the one place in admissions where discussing race is still explicitly legal. By Anemona Hartocollis and Colbi Edmonds — ...

Editor’s note: This is the fourth story in a collaborative series covering the state of Northwest college admissions in 2025. The first story in the series was published on Nov. 3. For some college ...

Mr. Driver is a professor at Yale Law School and the author of the forthcoming book “The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education.” For many ambitious ...

The coming admissions cycle marks a turning point for Duke, as the University navigates financial pressures, federal investigations into its admissions practices and the departure of its admissions ...